slacko-6.0 beta 2

[mavrothal]

I can't see any way the latest issues with spacefm, could be related to savefolder, but a savefile/savefolder comparison would be needed to clarify this, if you suspect that it is.

gyro

I don't think it has anything to do with a savefolder since it does it with a savefile and in RAM as well.

Not sure if relevant but do the issues persist after a second reboot?
In my case, first reboot over an existing savefolder/file (standard slacko 5.9.3) had issues from starting X to shutting down and evrything in bettween. But on the second reboot after relayering the filesystem, everything was fine.

[rg66]

Not sure if relevant but do the issues persist after a second reboot?
In my case, first reboot over an existing savefolder/file (standard slacko 5.9.3) had issues from starting X to shutting down and evrything in bettween. But on the second reboot after relayering the filesystem, everything was fine.

Doesn't seem to matter what I try. RAM, reboots, savedir, savefile etc... Tried from USB flash and on a different comp, same thing. Incidentally, Tahrpup does it as well, for me anyway.

[MochiMoppel]

As for the scanner issue , do you know what kernel driver is used? Is there any command line output?

I think I figured it out to a certain extent. There is something fishy about the way Slacko 5.9.3 loads, or better: does not load, SCSI drivers.

My test scenario:
- Scanner plugged and powered
- Boot a pristine Slacko 5.9.3
- Start PeasyScan => "No scanner detected!"

Reason: PeasyScan runs scanimage -L to create a list of installed scanners but finds none

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# scanimage -L    
No scanners were identified ...

Output of command sane-find-scanner:

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# sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x05da, product=0x009a) at libusb:003:002

Same as above with Slacko 5.7 lets start PeasyScan without problems.

Output of scanimage -L:

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# scanimage -L
device `microtek2:/dev/sg4' is a Microtek Phantom 636cx / C6 flatbed scanner

Output of command sane-find-scanner:

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# sane-find-scanner
found SCSI scanner " Scanner 600A4 1.10" at /dev/sg4
found USB scanner (vendor=0x05da, product=0x009a) at libusb:003:002

For now I found a way to use my USB scanner in Slacko 5.9.3, but it's a bit troublesome. I have to run

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modprobe sg

which loads the kernel module sg and everything is fine:

Output of System > PupScan > Kernel modules > sg

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filename:       /lib/modules/3.4.94/kernel/drivers/scsi/sg.ko
alias:          char-major-21-*
version:        3.5.34
license:        GPL
description:    SCSI generic (sg) driver
author:         Douglas Gilbert
srcversion:     9B942EBA4277341406BC859
depends:        
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.4.94 SMP mod_unload modversions 686 
parm:           scatter_elem_sz:scatter gather element size (default: max(SG_SCATTER_SZ, PAGE_SIZE)) (int)
parm:           def_reserved_size:size of buffer reserved for each fd (int)
parm:           allow_dio:allow direct I/O (default: 0 (disallow)) (int)

Output of System > PupScan > Kernel modules > microtek

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filename:       /lib/modules/3.4.94/kernel/drivers/usb/image/microtek.ko
license:        GPL
description:    Microtek Scanmaker X6 USB scanner driver
author:         John Fremlin <vii@penguinpowered.com>, Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
alias:          usb:v05DAp00B6d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v05DAp80ACd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v05DAp80A3d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v05DAp00A3d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v05DAp00A0d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v05DAp009Ad*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v05DAp0099d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v05DAp0094d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
alias:          usb:v04CEp0300d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
depends:        
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.4.94 SMP mod_unload modversions 686 

Don't know why I need a SCSI driver for a USB device, but all I know is that it worked before without tricks and now it doesn't.

[Jades]

For now I found a way to use my USB scanner in Slacko 5.9.3, but it's a bit troublesome. I have to run

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modprobe sg

which loads the kernel module sg and everything is fine

There's an issue where not all of the kernel modules are loading properly - I have the same problem with printing from a parallel port printer and have to manually modprobe lp and ppdev. It's been known about for a while but I'm not sure if there's a solution yet.

This version of Slacko has most modules in a zdrive (a separate SFS file), an approach which had caused major problems before in some versions of Luci and was dropped before the relevant Lupu was released. That was a few years back and I can't remember the specifics now.

[gyro]

For now I found a way to use my USB scanner in Slacko 5.9.3, but it's a bit troublesome. I have to run

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modprobe sg

Have you tried appending the command to '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'?

gyro

[ttuuxxx]

Ok I compiled the latest/last version Of Gnome-paint, and what a shame that they've given up and a abandoned this project, I hope someone forks it in the future. Its basically almost what I've been looking for, A few features haven't been implemented as of yet. But the layout is great, the sizes is awesome.
Ok what doesn't work, fonts, fuzzy/free select, and zoom, what does it need to be a perfect puppy paint program?
layers, and a couple of small effects, like shadows, colour balance,crop, resize etc.
ttuuxxx

[sc0ttman]

Ok I compiled the latest/last version Of Gnome-paint, and what a shame that they've given up and a abandoned this project, I hope someone forks it in the future. Its basically almost what I've been looking for, A few features haven't been implemented as of yet. But the layout is great, the sizes is awesome.
Ok what doesn't work, fonts, fuzzy/free select, and zoom, what does it need to be a perfect puppy paint program?
layers, and a couple of small effects, like shadows, colour balance,crop, resize etc.
ttuuxxx

this is not exactly what you are after... but here is a pixel focused editor.. the homepage has a screenshot of it running in puppy...

https://code.google.com/p/grafx2/wiki/Downloads?tm=2

[ttuuxxx]

Ok I compiled the latest/last version Of Gnome-paint, and what a shame that they've given up and a abandoned this project, I hope someone forks it in the future. Its basically almost what I've been looking for, A few features haven't been implemented as of yet. But the layout is great, the sizes is awesome.
Ok what doesn't work, fonts, fuzzy/free select, and zoom, what does it need to be a perfect puppy paint program?
layers, and a couple of small effects, like shadows, colour balance,crop, resize etc.
ttuuxxx

this is not exactly what you are after... but here is a pixel focused editor.. the homepage has a screenshot of it running in puppy...

https://code.google.com/p/grafx2/wiki/Downloads?tm=2

Close but it only has 256-color drawing, not enough colours:)
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Here's a small card game,

Fun GTK card game Belote is a popular 32-card trick-taking game played in France. It derived around 1920, probably via Clobyosh, from Klaverjassen, a game played since at least the 1600s in the Netherlands. Closely related games are played throughout the world.

ttuuxxx

[Volhout]

Hi Ttuuxxx,

Thanks for providing the card game. I'll check it tonight, since we play a lot of "klaverjassen" with friends. Never knew there was a similar game. There are many card games, but they centre around bridge, poker, and solitaire.

btw...Yes, I am Dutch....

[ttuuxxx]

Hi Ttuuxxx,

Thanks for providing the card game. I'll check it tonight, since we play a lot of "klaverjassen" with friends. Never knew there was a similar game. There are many card games, but they centre around bridge, poker, and solitaire.

btw...Yes, I am Dutch....

Works great, nice to see a GTK card game that doesn't use large gnome deps, the cards are xpm files, so it wouldn't be hard to make another card set for them off larger gnome card game images. I might do it later on depending on/if people like it.
I played like ten games before packaging it up, Its pretty hard to win, but still fun to play.
ttuuxxx

[Colonel Panic]

Hi Ttuuxxx,

Thanks for providing the card game. I'll check it tonight, since we play a lot of "klaverjassen" with friends. Never knew there was a similar game. There are many card games, but they centre around bridge, poker, and solitaire.

btw...Yes, I am Dutch....

I remember playing a game on my first computer called Klabiash, which was available for Windows 3.x and worked very well. This one looks very similar.

[Rope]

Any idea when Slacko 6 will be out of beta? Thanks.

[sheldonisaac]

Slacko 6.0 β

5.9.3 k 3.4.94

iso (~168 M) and delta from 5.9.2>>5.9.3 (+checksums)

Up at Ibiblio and NLUUG

Many tnanks, 01micko and others; works fine on my newest computer, the Dell Latitude E6410.
I'm not an expert, just a small-time user.
Have mostly used Lucid Puppy, but used others more-or-less for years.
So far have added claws-mail 3.80, Opera 12.16, putty 9.62, FBReader 0.99, and flashplayer

[sszindian]

'Some' graphics in PDF documents fail to display in PDF default reader . Same tested document-graphics display fine in Slacko-5.7

>>>---Indian------>

[partsman]

When installing supertux2 from PPM It wouldn't run still needed to install openal even though PPM showed openal-soft was installed !
I chose to install openal-1.13.pet to solve this however a symlink to openal-soft may be a better approach

[technosaurus]

Close but it only has 256-color drawing, not enough colours:)
ttuuxxx

You can always add more layers to get more colors. That is what I did with mtpaint anyhow. Any more than 256 makes it difficult to get to the colors anyhow.

[MochiMoppel]

X crashes when using Gnumeric

Slacko 5.7 and 5.9.3 use the same Gnumeric version (1.10.17), so the problem must be with the new Slacko. Can somebody confirm?

To reproduce:
1) Type anything into a cell and press Enter
2) Select this cell and press Ctrl+C (to copy)
3) Select another cell and press Crl+V (to paste)

This may already crash X, latest when selecting another cell X crashes. Typing xwin will restart X, but changes made in Gnumeric are lost.

Copy & Paste via context menu works normal.

[LazY Puppy]

Hi.

I'm currently examining the Slacko 5.9.3 and found some issues.

1.) using pkeys as boot parameter and boot is failing (puppy sfs not found)
2.) using plang as boot parameter and boot is failing (puppy sfs not found)
3.) can't connect to the internet using my GPRS Mobile USB-Modem (it is detected and ready for use - as the messages say; menus are updated but nothing else happens after this; no menu entries, no option to connect - works always in Lucid and Precise)

RSH

P.S.

Booting pkeys and plang tested in combination and as single used options - failed all the way. Failed also using 'fr' (french). Other languages not tested.

[mavrothal]

1.) using pkeys as boot parameter and boot is failing (puppy sfs not found)
2.) using plang as boot parameter and boot is failing (puppy sfs not found)
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Booting pkeys and plang tested in combination and as single used options - failed all the way. Failed also using 'fr' (french). Other languages not tested.

Looks fine here, alone or in combination. Few lang tested (including french - pic).

Anything special in your setup? The only relevant change I can find is this relating to VFAT booting devices, but this is also in slacko-5.7